Sorry this took so long. School has been keeping me busy along with volleyball after school Mon-Fri from 4-6PM lol. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! Thank you all for reading, it warms my heart to see all of the reviews you guys post :)

Bender's heart felt like it stopped. Oh God he thought.

His girlfriend Nattasia was standing in front of him, looking like she was going to break down into tears at any moment. And these tears were from him and he hit her. He felt his throat swell up as he stumbled for words, Boomer standing there quietly, completely forgetting about the quarrel him and Bender just had.

"Nattasia, I-" Bender said as he tried to reach out to touch her, but she pulled away, her green eyes now glassy from the tears she was holding back. Finally a tear rolled down her cheek. "I-It was an accident. I'm so sorry-" He was cut off.

She wiped the blood away from her nose and just then the school bell rang signaling the start of the day. She gave him one last glance, and said "You said you would protect me." In a voice he had never heard her speak in before. She was usually such a happy person, but her voice was filled with shakiness. He watched her walk away, leaving him and Boomer in the parking lot alone.

Boomer knew it was an accident. Bender was just so caught up in the moment, he knew sometimes his anger got the best of him, but not to this point.

Once Nattasia was out of sight, Bender kicked the car next to him, "FUCK!" He shouted, and knelt to the ground. Boomer then started to hear...crying? Wait-John Bender, the badass rebel of the school, was crying?! Boomer had been best friends with Bender since the 6th grade, and he had never seen him cry. Even when his dad had beaten him on a weekly basis.

"Bender man, I'm sorry. It's not your fault-" He tried to comfort him.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Bender's voice boomed. His face was buried in his arms, he was a wreck.

"John."

Bender looked up, his eyes were red with tears. "I screwed up." He admitted. "Shit!" He banged his hand against the car, he then lite a cigarette, tears still falling from his eyes.

"She's special. You can't just let her go like that, try to talk to her." Boomer said.

"No point." He mumbled as he let smoke drift from his mouth. "How could she trust s'one like me? I'm not rich. And I'm not the best example. How could she take me back." He took in a deep sigh, wiping tears away from his face.

"Face it Boomer, it's done." he said in a quivering voice. His head then returned to his hands, ashamed of himself.

Claire and her friends had been watching the whole thing. She smiled to herself a bit. She saw Nattasia grow closer to her, to get inside of the building. Claire tried to act concerned.

"God, are you ok?" She asked. Nattasia just glanced at her with glassy red eyes, and a line of blood beginning to come down her lips. She continued into the building without a word to Claire and her friends.

"Wow. If that doesn't break them up, then I don't know what will." Jessica commented, looking into a compact mirror as she fixed her hair and eyeliner. "See you later" Jessica said, and began walking with Sabrina to her first class.

8:07 AM, 7 Minutes After School Began

Boomer was sitting on top of his car, watching Bender. He had never seen him like this before.

"John, man, we gotta get to class. C'mon, maybe she will come around. It just takes time." He offered his hand out to John. John accepted it, and pulled himself up. He adjusted his jean jacket and flipped his hair, throwing the cigarette to the ground and stepping onto it with his worn down boots.

"Fuck it Boomer." He said, trying to sound like he wasn't hurting inside. He always did this to hide how he was really feeling. He mumbled as he walked toward the entrance of Shermer. But inside his heart was broken into a thousand shards, he didn't mean what he said.

Boomer felt his throat swell up. Yea, he felt bad about Bender. But he was acting like shit right now. "Fuck you John!" He shouted at him as Bender was walking to the building. He stopped and turned around. "All she did was love you, and your just going to throw her away like those other girls in your wallet. Maybe she was too good for you! And if you can't see that, then maybe you don't deserve her." Boomer said, he then stormed up the steps past Bender and walked to his first class, math.

Bender didn't go to his first class. He sat on the front steps of Shermer High. Why was his life so fucked up? Why did he have to mess up the one good thing that happened to him? He needed to get her back.

Everyone stared at Nattasia when she sat down in her seat in math. She heard some whispers, and lots of Bender's name being used. Finally Mr. Fitz started class.

"Ok class, today we are just going to hang around. I have to go to a meeting for the rest of the period and a sub will be here. In about fifteen minutes" He said as he packed up his things, picked up his coffee, then finally walked out of the door. Shortly after, another familiar figure came into the door. It was Boomer, he also had this class.

Nattasia was sitting in her desk quietly, looking at the ground. She then heard someone take a seat next to her, it was Boomer.

"Hey" he said softly. He could still tell she was crying a bit, her eyes were still a bit red.

"hey" she said quietly, wiping her nose free of blood again.

"Uhm" Boomer began to say, "About out there, Bender is real sorry. He-"

"Just leave it alone please" she said quietly, her eyes brimmed with tears.

"Listen to me. He was nervous wreck when you left. He cried. and you know John Bender doesn't cry easily. It was an accident. You are the best thing that ever happened to him."

She was quiet for a couple of moments.

"And me" he added in.

She looked at Boomer, confused. "What?"

"I have never seen Bender so happy in my life when he met you. He loves you, Nattasia."

Her mouth was pulling into a small smile. Boomer held his arms out, and gestured for Nattasia to give him a hug. She smiled a bit and went over to his desk and sat on his lap, giving him a hug and putting her face into his jacket. They didn't notice, but everyone in the room was watching them. Boomer flipped them all off and rubbed Nattasia's back gently. He then let go.

"The sub isn't here yet. Want to go find the little shit head?" He smirked.

She laughed softly, "Eh, sure. He couldn't survive without us." She smiled.